Introduction

The "Hotel Melanoma" moniker is a metaphor for living with my particular brand of cancer. Except for those lucky few of us deemed "cured", all we cancer survivors are guests of one of the many, many branded hotels in the "Hotel Carcinoma" chain. We can check out any time we like, but we can never leave. Meanwhile, let's be livin' it up; and please support cancer education, prevention, and treatment research.

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Friday, March 11, 2011

The Fight Goes On

Here’s a silly, happy song for you melanoma warriors currently undergoing treatment, sung to the tune of the Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”…

Doctor sees his patients at the cancer place...Patient is a member of his band...Doctor says to Patient "Boy, I like your case"And Patient says this as he shakes him by the hand...Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, fight goes on, brah!...Lala how the fight goes on...Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, fight goes on, brah!...Lala how the fight goes on.

Doctor drives his beemer to the cancer store...Finds a big malignant honkin’ thing... Shows it all to Patient fainting on the floor...And as he shows it to him he begins to sing... Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, fight goes on, brah!...Lala how the fight goes on...Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, fight goes on, brah!...Lala how the fight goes on.

In a couple of months they have shrunk it bit by bit,With a couple of meds flowing in the veins,Go Doctor and Patient man... (Ha ha ha ha ha)

Happy ever after at the cancer place...Doctor lets the Patient end the stand...Patient stays at home and does his livin’ thing...And in the evening he still sings it with the band...Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah!...Lala how the life goes on...Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah!...Lala how the life goes on.

In a couple of months they have shrunk it bit by bit,With a couple of meds flowing in the veins,Go Doctor and Patient man... (Ha ha ha ha ha)

Happy ever after at the cancer place...Patient lets the Doctor end the stand...Doctor strays away and finds another case...And in the evening he's a singer with the band...Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, fight goes on, brah!...Lala how the fight goes on...Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, fight goes on, brah!...Lala how the fight goes on.

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About Me

My blog reflects an ongoing quest to find the good stuff and the funny stuff I've stumbled into during my stay at The Hotel Melanoma since receiving a Stage IIIc diagnosis in 2003. And to raise awareness about this relatively unknown brand of cancer. If you find it of value in your own quest, please share it with others and make a donation to your favorite melanoma nonprofit organization to fund melanoma education, prevention and treatment research. If you're wondering why my golden retriever, Jordan, is pictured here, well, he actually writes most of my posts and he's a lot better looking than me.

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Important Disclaimer!

At great risk of sounding like the corporate lawyer I used to be by making the perfectly obvious perfectly clear, here goes. Neither The University of Colorado Cancer Center nor any of its affiliated entities or individual persons (whether living, dead, or in some alternate plane of existence) has anything whatsoever to do with this blog. They don’t endorse it, sponsor it, approve it, or sanction it. Most likely they are completely unaware of it because they have better things to do than search the ‘net for blogs of patients, much less read them. Moreover, to the extent they are aware of it, they may not even like my writing or sense of humor. Nevertheless- and I’m acting solely and exclusively on my own here- I still hope you give them money to support the cause of melanoma (or other cancer) research. They do good work.